This site is dedicated not only to the villagers who live here but everyone who is affiliated with it or visits Cockshutt. We have a fantastic community and many events to keep us on the map. Everything you need to know is on this site just use the menu along the top to link to the main pages, and you will find all the up and coming events detailed too. We are also closely linked to other sites relating to Cockshutt, you will find the links for these under “Friends Of Cockshutt” (just below this). Enjoy our site and if you have anything to add then please don’t hesitate to get in touch via the Contact Us page.
Last Updated (16.02.12):
Cockshutt village straddles the A528 Ellesmere to Shrewsbury Road, about 4 miles south of Ellesmere. The village has a Church, Junior School, Post Office, Pub, Shop, Garage, Millennium Hall, Playgroup, Play area, and Recreation Field. The links to their individual websites can be found on our “Cockshutt Friends” links at the side of the page.
The village has grown from a small agricultural region in the Crosemere area to a ribbon development along the Chester to Shrewsbury Stage coaching route in the late 1820’s. This form of transport led to the refurbishment of some farms and the building of Coaching Inns. At one time the village had 8 pubs dotted around for all the farm labourers working in the area. As farming methods change so has the village from a farming community to a dormitory one, as jobs on the farms disappeared and no other work replaced them, people commute all over Shropshire, Wrexham and further afield.
There is a great mixture of housing available in the village – private houses and bungalows, large and small, low cost housing owned by housing trusts both bungalows, small and larger family houses. There are many organisations meeting at the Millennium Hall and we have a Parish Council to represent us at North Shropshire District Council and a Football Team that is doing us all proud.
We are in desperate need for someone to assist in co-ordinating a village diary from the carious groups and organisations, just once a month so that we can keep the whole community informed of all the wonderful events that occur each and every day - please email the website if you have spare time, your help is very much welcome!